How to get rid of your 'ums' and 'likes'

For many of us, what we say is punctuated and disjointed by those little 'ums' and 'likes' that get unwittingly sprinkled through otherwise well-constructed sentences./>
”I was like… planning to like say that, but ummmm he just… like said it before me.” They are verbal crutches, with 'like' being particularly common amongst younger people.Though certainly not the most criminal of linguistic lapses, this habit can be a drawback in professional life, detracting from t